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Another propaganda piece is an artwork created by Herbert Smagon in 1989 titled “The Fall of the Berlin Wall” and it portrays the drastic difference between West and East Germany. Smagon’s controversial work solidifies the piece as propaganda; His service in World War Two had a huge influence on his art, which revolved around Nazi soldiers and graphic war scenes. The piece shows the oppression those in the communist country endured and how the destruction of the wall will bring them back into the light of freedom.

https://medium.com/@catiecooper1414/why-propaganda-changed-how-we-viewed-the-berlin-wall-65be231ce6b5

Imagine not only thinking but unironically painting this piece and thinking it portrayed Western Germany as a good place.

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 58 points 7 months ago

Giving up healthcare and guaranteed employment to watch Sex Show

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 51 points 7 months ago

Come to the capitalist West where women have to fuck strangers so they don't starve to death you oppressed commies!

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

CW: Discussion of CSA depicted as anti-communist propaganda by the artist responsible for this painting

This is almost certainly, like this must be anti-fascist satire. Look at the elements

  • Disney, an American cultural imperialist icon

  • Coca-cola, natch

  • Pornography

  • prostitution

  • consumerism

  • gin, the most wretched of all alcoholic beverages

  • Bananas that were overwhelmingly associated with communist oppression for reasons

  • Axel Springer is a media company that publishes the tabloid rag "Bild". Notably the elder Springer divorced his wife, who was Jewish per the Nuremberg laws, so he could continue working as a Nazi publisher. Some small amount of credit, he apparently did support his wife in some way or another and she did survive the camps. Like every other German who survived the war he was simply helpless to resist the Nazis, he's very sorry, he had no choice, and please ignore that he was a member of a Nazi paramilitary organization. The Red Army Faction bombed the Axel Springer offices in the 70s and the rag is right wing to it's core.

But then on the other hand the tombstones at the bottom are people who were killed crossing the wall, so who knows?

Welp, I looked the guy up. CW applies here -

spoilerHe's famous for drawing pictures of Red Army soldiers gleefully sexually assaulting and murdering blond haired blue eyed German children.

I have no fucking idea what is going on with this picture. I assume, in light of his politics, this is some kind of "Both sides are bad" fascist wank about a "D*" Western Germany and a lifeless oppressed Eastern Germany.

Maybe it's "The East Germans thought we were going to rescue them in to a good pure fascist Aryan society but actually we've been overwhelmed by "D*" so West Germany is actually bad"?

Fuck idk who can understand what Fascists think they're doing.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

gin, the most wretched of all alcoholic beverages

finally, somebody willing to say it

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What, Aviations are great!

[–] fox@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gin specifically has a long and torrid history as the Drink That Brings Men Low, with propaganda pieces about the dangers of gin specifically, not alcohol generally. The UK Gin Craze was a full blown moral panic

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

I thought it was totally classy! Heard the places where you can drink it were called palaces!

[–] drhead@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they are... gin by itself just tastes like plant water though

[–] miz@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

thats the crème de violette talking

[–] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

Onlt thing I disagree with is that gin is the only good liquor.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait a god damn minute, a Tom Collins is delightful

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

Maybe if you swap your maraschino cherry for a dash of ketchup

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Those two prostitutes in the image are likely sex trafficked from eastern europe, part of the massive human rights violation that was the neoliberal plundering of former ussr republics by the west.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 49 points 7 months ago

Communism is when no strippers

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 47 points 7 months ago

This legit looks like a satire piece

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months ago

communism no condom ads

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes come you oppressed communists and taste the glorious [checks notes] prostitution, cheap liquor, processed food, Disney imperialism???

[–] NewDark@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The bananas are a flex for all the South American imperialism.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

soypoint-1 GDR no banana soypoint-2 was an actual anti-GDR talking point.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

Damn the Soviet Union was still in black and white in the 80s? When did the West start sharing color technology?

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

Briefly thought the heart on her crotch was a cock n' balls and got very confused at what the message was

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

Bananas are ontologically evil

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

It's like It's a Wonderful Life except he starts in Potterville and has a terrible nightmare of a decent society. It's A Shitty Life.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

Enough with that old dreamy Caspar David Friedrich shit, this ought to be the National Painting of Germany.